Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

Two London Hoaxes

2 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

Two London Hoaxes

Not many years ago, in one of the popular dairy-refreshment shops in Holborn, the prim manageress and her white-capped waitresses were just…

Two London Hoaxes: Street

He was driven to Marlborough Street police office where he informed the magistrate that he had received a note purporting to come from Mrs…

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